Manuel Noriega, and his video game counterpart in Call Of duty: Black Ops II (Picture: Getty)

A former dictator and drug lord who is currently serving a 30-year sentence in prison is suing the makers of the Call Of Duty video games for portraying him in a negative light.

The makers of the hugely popular video game franchise are being sued by the incarcerated criminal for portraying him as a ‘kidnapper, murderer and enemy of the state’ in Call Of Duty: Black Ops II.

The game features a nefarious character named Manuel Noriega who double crosses the CIA in Panama while murdering plenty of his own forces and others along the way.

Although Noriega is currently serving time in prison in his native Panama for money laundering and drug trafficking while he held a dictatorship over the country, he is also suspected to have been involved in the deaths of many of his fellow countrymen and political opponents.

Not only does the computer game character share the name and certain alleged characteristics of the dictator, he is physically modeled on Noriega as well.

In his lawsuit, brought before the Los Angeles Superior Court, Noriega states that the game publisher Activision Blizzard should be forced to pay him royalties because the ‘heighten[ed] realism’ of using real people ‘translates directly into heightened sales for the defendants’.

It appears that despite his negative portrayal he is in fact suing the publisher for unjust enrichment, unfair business practices, and violation of common-law publicity rights.